Bøger af Can Xue

Kærlighed i et nyt årtusind er en roman, der cirkler mellem det ydre og indre, det fysiske og det psykiske. Mellem det at kunne styre og definere sit liv og at slippe kontrollen for at kunne leve – mellem at leve prosaisk og poetisk. Det er en roman, hvor poesien åbner laguner i sproget.Til tonerne af Kameliadamens sang kaster en række kvinder og mænd sig ud i livet for at finde og redefinere kærligheden og friheden. De tager sig en elsker eller gør karriere som sexarbejdere eller træffer helt andre valg i deres søgende vandring gennem livet som det spænder sig ud mellem frihed og fastlåsthed. Can Xue skriver på en gang legende og letbenet og dybt alvorligt, når hun giver sit bud på kærlighed og liv som det også kunne forme sig – organisk og bevægeligt – i dette stadig nye årtusindEn del af vanskeligheden ved at læse Kærlighed i et nyt årtusind var, at jeg ikke kunne stoppe med at tweete passager. [...] Det er uimodståeligt, den måde man træder ind i denne komiske, skiftende ikke-tid. - Eileen Myles Can Xue beskrives oftest som avantgarde-forfatter og med sin eksperimenterende og surrealistiske stil skiller hun sig ud fra den mere traditionelle kinesiske socialrealisme. Hendes forfatterskab har fået international opmærksomhed de seneste år, hvor bl.a. Kærlighed i et nyt årtusind, og hendes seneste roman I live in the slums har været longlistet til The International Booker Prize, ligesom hun også bliver nævnt i hovedfeltet af seriøse kandidater til Nobelprisen. På dansk foreligger Aldrende skyer i drift, oversat af Sidse Laugesen & Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild og udgivet i Korridors novellaserie.

Rammen for Aldrende skyer i drift er historien om en kvinde, Xu Ruhua, som har en affære med naboens mand Geng Shanwu, men inden for denne ramme beskriver Can Xue med et brutalt fravær af sentimentalitet den skade, den psykiske vold, den magt, den overvågning karaktererne udsætter hinanden for, og deres paranoia og manglende evne til at indgå i meningsfyldte sociale relationer. Værket er lyrisk og halucinerende, men materien er skidtet, mudderen, insekterne, afføringen, understregelsen af de ikke-attraktive kroppe og deres væren i verden.Can Xue beskrives oftest som avantgarde-forfatter og som en unik stemme i kinesisk litteratur, der med sin eksperimenterende og surrealistiske stil skiller sig ud fra den mere traditionelle kinesiske socialrealisme. Hun er ikke tidligere oversat til dansk, men hendes forfatterskab har fået international opmærksomhed de seneste år. Elsempelvis var hendes seneste roman Love in the New Millennium longlistet til Bookerprsen i år, og hun blev endnu en gang nævnt i hovedfeltet af kandidater ved året uddeling af Nobelprisen.

The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers

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"e;There's a new world master among us, and her name is Can Xue."e;Robert CooverTwo young girls sneak onto the grounds of a hospital, where they find a disturbing moment of silence in a rose garden. A couple grows a plant that blooms underground, invisibly, to their long-time neighbor's consternation. A cat worries about its sleepwalking owner, who receives a mysterious visitor while he's asleep. After a ten-year absence, a young man visits his uncle, on the twenty-fourth floor of a high-rise that is floating in the air, while his ugly cousin hesitates on the stairs . . .Can Xue is a master of the dreamscape, crafting stories that inhabit the space where fantasy and reality, time and timelessness, the quotidian and the extraordinary, meet. The stories in this striking and lyrical new collectionpopulated by old married couples, children, cats, and nosy neighbors, the entire menagerie of the everydayreaffirm Can Xue's reputation as one of the most innovative Chinese writers in a generation.Can Xue is a pseudonym meaning "e;dirty snow, leftover snow."e; She learned English on her own and has written books on Borges, Shakespeare, and Dante. Her publications in English include, The Embroidered Shoes, Five Spice Street, and Blue Light in the Sky, among others.Karen Gernant is a professor emerita of Chinese history at Southern Oregon University. She translates in collaboration with Chen Zeping.Chen Zeping is a professor of Chinese linguistics at Fujian Teachers' University, and has collaborated with Karen Gernant on more than ten translations.

In Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue’s vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character “is driving death away with a singular performance.” Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household’s cats and rosebushes. Joe’s customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel’s end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can’t be stopped—or helped.

A major new collection of stories by one of the most exciting and creative voices in contemporary Chinese literature